Intussusception

http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/surgical/intussusception.html

Try saying that 3 times fast! That is what Tommy was diagnosed with Monday morning. Lets start at the beginning... about a day after Tommy broke his leg he started throwing up, we figured it was from the pain of his broken leg, then he started to have diarrhea, so we figured he got the flu. He was doing both probably 3-4 times a day. He hasn't had much of an appetite since he broke his leg either. Saturday(11/1) he started grabbing under his belly button and screamed a scream that I have never heard him do before, he was flipping around, couldn't be comforted and you could tell he was in pain. He did that for about 10 minutes before he finally let Keith pick him up. Through out the night he continued screaming every 30-45 minutes, but never as bad as that first one. Then he threw up all over Keith several times. It was very dark and very stinky, I ran him up to the doctor, they told me he was dehydrated and sent us to the emergency room. The ER doctor did an x-ray to role out intussusception, the x-ray came back negative for it, so we hydrated and went home with discharge instructions. Sunday Tommy did great drinking almost a whole gallon of gatorade and ate a little toast and mashed potatoes. Sunday night he had his first poopy diaper since he woke up Saturday morning. It looked like baby poop, but was brick red! After calling several medically inclined people we know (thanks guys!) I decided that I would let Tommy stay asleep and watch him while he slept and take him in to his pediatrician for a follow up first thing Monday morning. He did fine overnight. Monday we got the the pediatrician and he again wasn't eating or drinking. She pushed on his belly and said she was concerned about intussusception and was sending us back to the ER to do another x-ray but this time with berium. She told us that he could have it but it just wasn't present on Saturday. So back to the ER we go. We had the Chief Pediatric ER doctor as our doctor! She was great!! And Tommy did end up having intussusception. Unfortunately the berium enema x-ray did not clear Tommy up all the way, so they had to do emergency surgery on him.

This is Tommy getting ready to go upstairs for his surgery, I didn't have my camera with me, so I had to do phone pictures to be able to blog! He did great during his surgery and even got his appendix taken out! Kindof a two for the price of one deal!! No, the appendix is usually affected by this disease and needs to come out to get all the infection! He had a hard time waking up from the anesthetic, but was a trooper! We had a rough night, Tommy was in quite a bit of pain, but right now is not hooked up to the IV and is only taking tylenol for pain!! He is drinking, not eating yet, but is on the right track!! Thank you everyone for helping with David and with giving Tommy blessings and your prayers and thoughts!! Sorry we missed your big night Janine, and sorry Sarene that we are missing your birthday today! We hopefully will be seeing the doctor in the next few hours to see when we get to go home! The surgeon said last night 3-4 days, but the nurse is hopeful we will be able to go today!! Keep your fingers crossed!!